It’s interesting to watch what happens when a person is presented with a free-market solution to what has come to be seen as a problem for government to solve. The problem might be health insurance, retirement planning, labor agreements, or nearly anything that people decide “they should do something about”, with the “they” being the government. A lot of feedback I’ve received on my last several columns has a common theme: that the free-market sounds great in theory, but it doesn’t produce equal outcomes, and because of man’s moral imperfections, it’s idealistic to rely on the free-market to promote those outcomes.

I stand accused of being an an Idealistic Capitalist, to which I plead guilty.